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Economics Seminar

Authors:

• Shurojit Chatterji
  Singapore Management University

• Remzi Sanver
  Bilgi University

• Arunava Sen
  Indian Statistical Institute

In this paper, we investigate domains which admit "well-behaved", strategy-proof social choice functions. We show that if the number of voters is even, then every domain that satisfies a richness condition and admits an anonymous, tops-only, unanimous and strategy-proof social choice function, must be semi-single-peaked. Conversely every semi-single-peaked domain admits an anonymous, tops-only, unanimous and strategy- proof social choice function. Semi-single-peaked domains are generalizations of single- peaked domains on a tree introduced by Demange (1982). We provide sharper versions of the results above when tops-onlyness is replaced by tops-selectivity and the richness condition is weakened.